February 1911 calendar

Events

• 05 Feb 1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam.
• 06 Feb 1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople / Istanbul Turkey
• 08 Feb 1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel D�vila of Honduras.
• 18 Feb 1911 The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
• 25 Feb 1911 Opera Natoma, premieres in Philadelphia

Famous Birthday

• Ronald Reagan

  American politician, elected U.S.

• Merle Oberon

  Eurasian-American actress who appeared in over 20 films including "The Private Life of Henry VIII," 1933, "Over The Moon," 1937, "The...

• Jussi Björling

  Swedish tenor (d. 1960).

• André Hardellet

  French poet and writer.

• Jehan Alain

  French musician, an organist and composer.

• Carybé (artist)
• Jean-Jacques Grunenwald

  French organist/composer, dies at age 71.

• Henri Knap

  Dutch writer and journalist, author of a column for the social pages in the "Amsterdam Diary.

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68.

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68.

• Walter Ernest Allen

  Writer / critic.

• Alec Cairncross

  chancellor (Glasgow University).

• Stephen H Sholes

  American recording executive (d. 1968).

• Frank Hercules

  writer.

• Eustace Wenworth

  Roskill law lord.

• Robert Guyn McBride

  Tucson, Arizona -- Composer (Mexican Rhapsody).

• Willem J Kolff

  Dutch / US internist / inventor (Artificial Kidney).

• Robert Earl Jones

  American actor (d. 2006).

• Orrin Tucker

  American bandleader and composer.

• Anne Aitken [nee Hopkins]

  Chicago, Illinois -- Co-found (Diamond Sangha).

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Famous Deaths

• Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Peter Nicolai von Wilm

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Peter A "Piet" Cronje South Africa Boer General

  dies at about age 75.

• Albert von Rothschild

  baron/Austrian banker, dies at age 66.

• Theodor Escherich

  German pediatrician (Born 1859).

• Billy Murdoch

  Australian cricketer (Born 1854).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Nellie Melba - La Boheme - Mi Chiamano Mimi (My Name is Mimi)
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Under the Yum Yum Tree
3. Elida Morris - Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over and Love Me Some More)
4. Arthur Collins - I Love It!
5. Will Oakland - Mother Machree